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Patrolling the 'Big Up' : the adventures of Mounted Constable Johns in the Top End of the Northern Territory, 1910-1915 / edited by Darrell Lewis.

Title
Patrolling the 'Big Up' : the adventures of Mounted Constable Johns in the Top End of the Northern Territory, 1910-1915 / edited by Darrell Lewis.
Author
Johns, John Robert, 1887-1949.
Publication
Darwin [N.T.] : Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Lewis, D. (Darrell)
  • Historical Society of the Northern Territory.
Description
xxi, 89 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Johns, John Robert, 1887-1949
  • Mounted police > Australia, Northern > Biography
  • Police > Northern Territory > Biography
  • Northern Territory > Description and travel
Note
  • "This publication, which derives from Constable Johns' manuscripts edited by Darrell Lewis ..."--P. v.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii, 81-86) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part 1. Beginnings -- To the Territory -- First patrol -- A rescue trip -- Census collecting -- Brocks Creek Police Station -- Murder at Bynoe Harbour -- Part 2. A double murder -- Fitzmaurice River patrol -- The hunt for Koppio, Katterinyan and Anyuana -- Return to Brocks Creek -- The prisoners escape -- Recapture of Koppio -- Return to the Fitzmaurice -- Recapture of Katterinyan and Anyuana -- to Timber Creek -- A race against the 'Wet' -- Part 3. Brocks Creek interlude -- A Daly River tragedy -- An Adelaide River tragedy -- With a prisoner to Melville Island -- Patrol to Anson Bay -- Part 4. The Jim Campbell murder -- Patrol to Arnhem Land -- Searching inland -- Exhuming Jim Campbell's remains -- The return journey and capturing the last prisoner -- Return to Darwin -- Part 5. Transfer to Leichhardt's Bar Police Station -- Around the Arnhem Land coast -- A mysterious fish kill -- Trading with the aborigines -- Part. 6 Arrival at Leichhardt's Bar -- Dilemmas in justice -- An aboriginal tomb -- Malaria -- Life at Leichhardt's Bar -- Neighbour -- Roper River Mission -- Leaving Leichhardt's Bar -- Southward Bound.
OCLC
40500719
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library